Word: outlet
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...signed a contract with Snapp Navigation Co. of Brazil for service up the Amazon. The new river line will connect Condor's coastal route to its line running up along the Bolivian-Brazilian frontier, will give its systems in Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru access to an Atlantic outlet. If President Vargas' three-week-old promise of domestic colonization and agricultural development in the Amazon goes through, Condor will have a wedge into the heart of Brazil's richest territory...
...neutral but palpitant Sweden, engineers of Ericsson Telephone Co. devised an air-raid alarm which works like a doorbell. The bell can be plugged into an ordinary current outlet in the house. If raiders come, the power plant slightly steps up the voltage in the line, rings the alarm bell in all houses which have...
...Black Hand prospered by systematic extortion until Prohibition provided a new outlet for Sicilian genius...
...Alumni Bulletin in its first issue of the year has declared a state of emergency, in which "all talk which has no outlet in performance is vain." It has called for a "direct contribution to the national security from every one of 8,000 men now in attendance at Harvard." This is not the first time Americans have heard such a call. The President of the United States, seven long years ago, declared a state of emergency, and called for united action against the economic and social ills that afflicted "one-third of a nation." Back in those days...
...Another question that bobs up is the fate of the Progressive, the HSU organ which, under the leadership of Marx and Stange, has become one of Harvard's best-written, most provocative magazines. It would be especially unfortunate if the rift in the HSU should result in clogging this outlet of student opinion...